Tristan G. Brown is a historian of late imperial (“early modern”) China. His research focuses on the ways in which law, science, environment, and religion interacted in China from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. His first book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton University Press, 2023), examines Qing (1644-1912) judicial archives to investigate the uses of cosmology in Chinese law during an era of great economic and environmental change. He is preparing a second book that employs Chinese, Arabic, and Persian sources to examine the history of Islam in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), when many Muslim communities integrated into Chinese society.